Loading times

[celticfang 14]

Anyone else get long (4-5 minue) loading times or infinte loading screen?

I'm sat here with IV in windowed mode just loading and loading and loading for 2 minutes, any definitive ways to speed it up?

[ineseri 5,125]

Are you running the game as administrator? Are you using many mods? 

[celticfang 14]

Running LaunchGTAIV as admin yeah and list of mods?

LCPDFR
SNT

That's it but even on a vanilla mod-free install it takes just as long to load in from the main menu.

Sidenote: I like the loading screen theme but it gets old when I'm hearing it after EVERY crash. So any way to silence it or lower the volume or no?

[ineseri 5,125]

What are your computer specs, sounds like your PC is struggling to keep up. 

[celticfang 14]

Specs?

Okay here you go:

 

Processor: Athlon II X64 640 3Ghz Graphics: GTX 480 RAM: 8GB, OS: Win7 64bit

I can run other demanding games (Crysis 2-3, Ghosts) maxed out though whereas IV seems to under report what I got but I do notice IV leaking memory like crazy. It may not be my system though as I've had the slow loading issue on a number of machines, desktop, lower spec laptop, higher spec older PC

Any command lines I can use to maybe speed it up?

Also I have the LAA flag set but how can I tell IV to use 6 outof my 8 gig of RAM?

[ineseri 5,125]

Try and disable clip capture and use this commandline: 

-novblank -norestrictions -percentvidmem 100 -novsync -frameLimit 0 -nomemrestrict

[celticfang 14]

Gonna give that a go, thanks.

Does it matter that I run it in a window since if I run it full screen it absolutely loves to BSOD on me though?

[ineseri 5,125]

Running in Windowed mode seem to help for some users, so if you want to do that I see no problems with it.